Companion encyclopedia of geography the environment and humankind / [Book :]
edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Mike Robinson.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- 1021 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Planet Earth / The ever-changing climate / The biosphere / Human evolution / The geography of language / Religion : nature and origins / The modification of the earth by humans in pre-industrial times / European settlement, 1450-1750 / European expansion and land cover transformation / The origins of the capitalist world economy / Industrialization and world agriculture / Changes in global demography / Origins of modern environmentalism / The saviour city : beneficial effects of urbanization in England and Wales / From a 'cultural' world to a 'political' one / Unity and division in global political geography / The geography of conflicts and the prospects for peace / A new 'geo-economy' : patterns, processes, problems / Third World urbanization / From riches to rags : the international debt crisis / Monitoring, modelling, and mothering the environment : the impact of science and technology since the second World War / Environmentalism on the move / Climatic variation and global change / Ocean uses : environment and management / Water : confronting the critical dilemma / Surface instability and human modifications in geomorphic systems / The tropical rain forest / Humanity's resources / Environmental hazards / The sustainability of sustenance : land and agricultural production in the Third World / Famines and surplus in world food production / The nature of Third World cities / Western cities and their problems / Changing countrysides / The quality of life : human welfare and social justice / The expansion and fragmentation of geography in higher education / Achievements of spatial science / Geography and humanism in the late twentieth century / Structural themes in geographical discourse / Challenging the boundaries : survival and change in a gendered world / Place / Concern for geography : a case for equal emphasis of the geographical traditions / Home and world, cosmopolitanism and ethnicity : key concepts in contemporary human geography / Paleoenvironmental narrative and scenario science / Geographical futures : some personal speculations / Cliff D. Ollier -- Andrew Goudie -- Alfred G. Fischer -- Bernard Wood -- William C. Brice -- E. Geoffrey Parrinder -- I.G. Simmons -- Len Guelke and Jeanne Kay -- Michael Williams -- John Langton -- Brian W. Ilbery and Ian R. Bowler -- John I. Clarke -- J.M. Powell -- Brian T. Robson -- Paul Claval -- Peter Taylor -- John O'Loughlin -- Peter Dicken -- Alan Gilbert -- Stuart Corbridge -- Richard Huggett -- Timothy O'Riordan -- F. Kenneth Hare -- Alastair D. Couper -- Peter Crabb -- Jonathan D. Phillips and William H. Renwick -- John R. Flenly -- I.G. Simmons -- John Whittow -- William C. Clarke -- David Grigg -- David Drakakis-Smith -- David T. Herbert -- Hugh Clout -- David M. Smith -- R.J. Johnston -- Arild Holt-Jensen -- Anne Buttimer -- Richard Peet -- Janice Monk -- Edward Relph -- Adetoye Faniran -- Yi-Fu Tuan -- Frank Oldfield -- Peter Haggett.